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gherkin

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɝkɪn/
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/ˈɡɝkɪn/ · /ˈɡɜːkɪn/

Definition of gherkin

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
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noun

  1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
  2. (Ireland, UK)Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle
  3. (slang)The penis.
    ““Even my gherkin is sorry, and it didn't talk shit about anybody," persists Adrian. The edge of Titus's mouth quivers in laughter.”
    ““Yes, daddy,” I moaned, lying big-time as his finger played in my sudsy pussy. “Say please,” he ordered, taking my hand to circle around his gherkin.”
    “His gherkin was doing the tent dance, and he couldn't have been prouder.”

name

  1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin.
  2. (UK, informal)The building at 30 St Mary Axe, a distinctively-shaped skyscraper in London, England

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Etymology

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from…

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From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.

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